MANUFACTURING, GREEN, JOBS
MARCH/APRIL 2015
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features
+ Clean Power
Two production giants, Procter & Gamble and Intel, are banking on domestic manufacturing with investments in sustainable facilities and operations.
+ Green Neighborhoods
The Affordable Green Neighborhoods Grant Program aids low income housing projects in the pursuit of LEED certification.
+ Vying for Veterans
Veterans for sustainability, an idea generated in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is taking shape and moving across the country.
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The Work Projects Administration (WPA) Poster Collection. A sample of the 2,000 posters produced from 1936 to 1943 by various branches of the WPA that were designed to publicize job opportunities, community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs.
Posters in this collection were made by artists working for the Works Projects Administration, a “New Deal” program of the U.S. Government.
Credit: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs
Division, WPA Poster Collection. www.loc.gov
LEED impact categories
+ community
For almost 40 years, YouthBuild has guided underprivileged young adults into constructive careers and lives.
+ human health
At Harvard University, employees are learning to ease stress and feel more productive through mindfulness meditation.
+ ecosystems
Article 89 gives Boston a new lease on urban
agriculture.
+ green economy
Shopping center developer, owner, and operator Regency becomes a pioneer in the United States’ green bond movement.
departments
+ LEED ON
Letter from our leaders
+ sustainable sites
How a new factory became a part of one
of our oldest manufacturing towns.
+ community
Starbucks takes the lead in social responsibility at home with a college program for its workforce.
+ products
Innovative building products
+ local pulse
Q & A with Bryna Dunn, LEED Fellow, director of planning and sustainability at Moseley Architects; LEED Steering Committee Immediate Past Chair
